PUP 301 Exam 1 Questions & Answers
2025/2026
Difficult to define, lack obvious solutions. and are linked to other issues - ANSWERSWicked
problems
Greco-Roman towns grew organically - ANSWERSFalse
An US document that fails to outline the power of local government - ANSWERSUS Constituion
Social costs of production not reflected in the consumer price - ANSWERSExternalities
What do safeguard planners try to protect - ANSWERSpublic health, safety, and welfare
Planners decisions involved choices about these - ANSWERSValues
Recent arguments against planning include claims that planning is doomed to fail, as illustrated
by constant plan revision that occur, and that it is unnecessary in a free market. -
ANSWERSTRUE
Rival, Non-excludeable, and hence can result in the market failure of over consumption -
ANSWERSCommon Resources
The difficulty of transforming individual preferences into one societal preference -
ANSWERSImpossibility theorem
, Externalities - ANSWERSSocial costs of a production that are not reflected in the consumer
price, such as the environmental and health impacts caused by a polluting factory
The argument that planning is unnecessary in a free market ignores these - ANSWERSMarket
failures
Who do architects design for? - ANSWERSClients
This time period of planning stressed gridiron streets and public squares - ANSWERSColonial
Towns
The division of parcels into individual lots - ANSWERSSubdivision Regulations
Theory that says planners must maintain strict value neutrality - ANSWERSRational PLanning
When self interested individuals fail to cooperate, resulting in a worst state for all -
ANSWERSPrisoner Dilemma Conditions
The sector that majority of urban planners work - ANSWERS
The employer of the majority of urban planners in the US - ANSWERSLocal Government
What theory is outlined by mathematical modeling - ANSWERSRational
What is the method of Incrementalist - ANSWERSMuddling through
What is the role of the Communicative Planner - ANSWERSShould alert residents of issues and
arm them with technical data and process understanding
2025/2026
Difficult to define, lack obvious solutions. and are linked to other issues - ANSWERSWicked
problems
Greco-Roman towns grew organically - ANSWERSFalse
An US document that fails to outline the power of local government - ANSWERSUS Constituion
Social costs of production not reflected in the consumer price - ANSWERSExternalities
What do safeguard planners try to protect - ANSWERSpublic health, safety, and welfare
Planners decisions involved choices about these - ANSWERSValues
Recent arguments against planning include claims that planning is doomed to fail, as illustrated
by constant plan revision that occur, and that it is unnecessary in a free market. -
ANSWERSTRUE
Rival, Non-excludeable, and hence can result in the market failure of over consumption -
ANSWERSCommon Resources
The difficulty of transforming individual preferences into one societal preference -
ANSWERSImpossibility theorem
, Externalities - ANSWERSSocial costs of a production that are not reflected in the consumer
price, such as the environmental and health impacts caused by a polluting factory
The argument that planning is unnecessary in a free market ignores these - ANSWERSMarket
failures
Who do architects design for? - ANSWERSClients
This time period of planning stressed gridiron streets and public squares - ANSWERSColonial
Towns
The division of parcels into individual lots - ANSWERSSubdivision Regulations
Theory that says planners must maintain strict value neutrality - ANSWERSRational PLanning
When self interested individuals fail to cooperate, resulting in a worst state for all -
ANSWERSPrisoner Dilemma Conditions
The sector that majority of urban planners work - ANSWERS
The employer of the majority of urban planners in the US - ANSWERSLocal Government
What theory is outlined by mathematical modeling - ANSWERSRational
What is the method of Incrementalist - ANSWERSMuddling through
What is the role of the Communicative Planner - ANSWERSShould alert residents of issues and
arm them with technical data and process understanding
